Tuesday, April 14, 2015

10:21 AM

An environmental group slammed Gov. Scott Walker in a newspaper ad today, saying it’s time for him to do “what’s right for our kids instead of what’s right for the Koch brothers.”

The Nextgen Climate Change Action Committee charges in the spot Wisconsin’s GOP leadership has “declared war on science by banning work on climate change.” The line refers to a vote last week by the Board of Commissioners of Public Lands to prohibit agency staff from working on global warming or climate change while on state time. The ban was pushed by GOP state Treasurer Matt Adamczyk, one of three commissioners, after Executive Secretary Tia Nelson served on then-Gov. Jim Doyle’s Global Warming Task Force.

The ad charges Republicans made the move because the Koch brothers have made millions while opposing “solutions to climate change” and protect their profits by “bankrolling Big Oil politicians like Scott Walker.”

The spot closes by urging readers to call Walker’s Capitol office and tell him to “stop Wisconsin’s war on science.”

The group was founded by Tom Steyer, a wealthy philanthropist and environmentalist.